Government blacklists 8 SMS headers for sending fraudulent communications

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said it has blacklisted eight SMS Headers for sending fraudulent communications for committing cyber-crime, in collaboration with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).

It was noted that more than 10,000 fraudulent messages were sent using these eight headers in the past three months and in its action, all the 73 SMS headers and 1,522 SMS content templates owned by these Principal Entities (PEs) have been blacklisted and none of these PEs, SMS headers or templates can now be used to send SMS through any telecom operator, the DoT said.